World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/20/9085

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UK plan for massive 'Big Brother' database goes unreported in US media
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7483/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

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I Spy Your PC: Researchers Find New Ways to Steal Data

Researchers have developed two new techniques for stealing data from a computer that use some unlikely hacking tools: cameras and telescopes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080519/tc_pcworld/146047



'Big Brother' database for phones and e-mails

A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism.

http://tinyurl.com/5eafvt


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/20/9077/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/33542


From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Swanson

Le Journal de Dimanche's Gilles Delafon writes that in the Middle East, "George Bush will have failed as few American presidents have before him. His diplomatic record there belongs in the category of pure calamity - his latest visit to the Near East this week reminds us of that once again."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East

Erica Werner, of The Associated Press: "The head of the Environmental Protection Agency initially supported giving California and other states full or partial permission to limit tailpipe emissions - but reversed himself after hearing from the White House, a report said Monday. The report by the Democratic staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee cites interviews and depositions with high-level EPA officials. It amounts to the first solid evidence of the political interference alleged by Democrats and environmentalists since Administrator Stephen Johnson denied California's waiver request in December."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Environmental+Protection+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Johnson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waiver
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Erica+Werner

Der Deutsche Bauernverband (DBV) fordert die UN-Umweltkonferenz in Bonn auf, sich klar gegen Patente auf Tiere und Pflanzen auszusprechen. Dieses Thema müsse auf der Konferenz mit Teilnehmern aus aller Welt einen zentralen Stellenwert einnehmen, so der Verband am 20. Mai in Berlin. Der Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt könne nur gewährleistet werden, wenn der Zugang zum Genpool allen Züchtern und Landwirten "uneingeschränkt" zur Verfügung stehe. Landwirte und Züchter würden weltweit durch Züchtung und Anbau Standort angepasster Pflanzen zum Erhalt einer breiten Sortenvielfalt beitragen. Gleiches gelte für die Tierzucht. Es dürfe nicht zugelassen werden, "dass sich einzelne Unternehmen diese jahrhundertealte Arbeit zum Vorteil machen und durch Patentierungen eine Monopolstellung auf bestimmtes Genmaterial beanspruchen", meint der Bauernverband.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=17986

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-mountain-that-lost-its-top-831037.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Appalachians

Interesting brochure by the "Friends of the Earth"

http://www.attac.de/agrarnetz/dokumente/foe_gmo.pdf

Showing in detail broken promises and unsustainable agriculture by Monsanto and others frankenfood.


Tom


Informant: Dorothee Krien



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GMOs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=frankenfood
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/mccain-defends-enron-loophole/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Enron

http://freepagenews.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/monsanto-history-of-contamination-and-cover-up/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monsanto

Kim Sengupta, of The Independent UK: "The British Government is accused of being the chief obstacle to the signing of a treaty to ban cluster bombs, which have maimed and killed thousands of civilians worldwide. Countries that have suffered the impact of the bombs, humanitarian groups and former commanders of British forces have called for the UK to drop its insistence on retaining cluster munitions, a stance, they say, that is likely to scupper hopes of securing an agreement at an international conference starting in Dublin today."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008N.shtml



America AWOL on Cluster Bombs

Lora Lumpe, of Foreign Policy In Focus, writes: "More than 100 governments, including all major NATO allies, met on May 19 to begin two weeks of negotiations in Dublin, Ireland to finalize a global treaty banning cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians. The U.S. government will not be there, and is exerting pressure on allies to weaken the treaty. Washington claims that future joint military operations will be undermined if allied governments prohibit the use of these weapons."

http://www.truthout.org/article/america-awol-cluster-bombs



111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty

Shawn Pogatchnik, for The Associated Press, reports from Dublin, Ireland: "Chief negotiators of a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs predicted Friday that the United States will never again use the weapons, a critical component of American air and artillery power. The treaty formally adopted Friday by 111 nations, including many of America's major NATO partners, would outlaw all current designs of cluster munitions and require destruction of stockpiles within eight years. It also opens the possibility that European allies could order US bases located in their countries to remove cluster bombs from their stocks."

http://www.truthout.org/article/111-nations-but-not-us-adopt-cluster-bomb-treaty

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US Official: Cluster Bomb Ban Could Hurt 'Cooperation' and 'Humanitarian Work'
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9125/

Lie-Down Protest Targets Cluster Bombs
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9119

US Subverts The Cluster Bomb Ban
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/24/9169/

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Timeline of Cluster Munitions Use

2003 - The US and UK use nearly 13,000 cluster munitions, containing and estimated 1.8 million to two million submunitions, during three weeks of military operations in Iraq.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200805190039.html


From Information Clearing House

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BAN CLUSTER BOMBS
http://www.avaaz.org/en/ban_cluster_munitions/12.php?cl=91796480



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cluster+bombs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kim+Sengupta
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jody+Williams

Patricia Rondon, of Reuters: "A US Navy jet violated Venezuelan airspace around two small Caribbean islands over the weekend in what the South American country said was a provocation coordinated with neighboring Colombia. Venezuela and the United States bicker over everything from energy policy to arms sales. The incursion comes amid heightened tensions over accusations that Venezuela helped a guerrilla army fighting the government in US ally Colombia. The Pentagon said a Navy aircraft on a counternarcotics mission had navigation problems that led it to stray into Venezuelan airspace on Saturday."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Venezuela
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Colombia

Barry Meier and Kate Zernike, of The New York Times: "Sorting out the lobbying entanglements of his campaign advisers is proving to be a messy business for Senator John McCain. On Monday, just days after it issued new rules to address conflicts of interest, the McCain campaign was furiously sifting through the business records of aides and advisers. The new rules were prompted by disclosures that led to the abrupt departure from the campaign of a number of aides who worked as lobbyists, including some with ties to foreign governments."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barry+Meier

Kathy Kelly: The Dem candidates do not take on the defense industry.
http://tinyurl.com/69z63e



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military-industrial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Kelly

http://tinyurl.com/6ofyph

Nachricht vom Dugi-News-Team
(verantwortlich: Johann J. Fonfara)

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Krisentreffen in Berlin wegen Pannen im Atommülllager Asse

Nach Pannen im Atommülllager Asse II bei Wolfenbüttel kommt es am Dienstag (24. Juni) in Berlin zu einem kurzfristig anberaumten Spitzentreffen von Bund und Land Niedersachsen. Vor wenigen Tagen war bekanntgeworden, dass in dem Forschungsbergwerk offenbar radioaktive Salzlauge lagert, die die zulässigen Grenzwerte um das Acht- bis Neunfache überschreitet. Laut Bundesumweltministerium hat das zuständige Landesbergamt gegen geltendes Strahlenschutzrecht verstoßen. Schavan ist auf Bundesebene für das Forschungsbergwerk zuständig.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18216



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomkraftwerk
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CO2

http://www.alternet.org/environment/85842/?page=entire


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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Inflation up, growth down and Americans drive less, but Peak Oil is still taboo for NY Times

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7506/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=peak+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Heinberg

http://www.mediafire.com/?mmztebwemdx

Ein interessanter und lesens-WERTER Diskussionsbeitrag zum Thema/Problem oder ? „Klima-Wandel“.

Hinweis: Die pdf-Datei ist eine von Johann J. Fonfara durch Fettschreibung und Unterstreichungen modifizierte Fassung des ZEIT-Artikels.

Wir danken Jürgen Bilger für die Zusendung dieses Artikels.


Dugi-e.V.

Quebecois Libre
by Bradley Doucet

05/15/08

Diverting crops like corn to ethanol refineries increases the demand for corn, which raises the price of corn. This in turn causes some farmers to shift fields to corn production, and some consumers to substitute away from corn, both of which raise the prices of other staples. … But if consumers in rich countries want biofuels, then that’s what they want, and markets will just have to adjust, right? Except that it’s not consumers who are choosing to use biofuels in a free market — it’s governments that are pushing biofuels on consumers with market-distorting mandates and subsidies...

http://www.quebecoislibre.org/08/080515-11.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis

Consortium News
by Ray McGovern

05/19/08

When Adm. William ‘Fox’ Fallon stepped down as the top U.S. military officer on the Middle East, a key obstacle to a possible U.S. strike against Iran was removed. In this open letter, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern urges Fallon to speak out on the dangers of a wider war...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051908b.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fallon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

Disloyal Opposition
by JD Tuccille

05/19/08

USA Today came out with a troubling (but not unexpected) story stating that the federal government is way over its head in red ink — so deep in debt that if you divied it up among the population, the tab would be ‘nearly $500,000 per household.’ D.C.’s estimated $57.3 trillion in liabilities (State and local debt raise the total to $61.7 trillion) comes courtesy primarily of those oh-so-popular entitlement programs that keep the population sucking at the government tit and voting for more. Medicare alone has an unfunded liability of $30.4 trillion.

http://tinyurl.com/4eqv4p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=JD+Tuccille

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

05/19/08

Government views you as a source of income. You need to know that to protect yourself. More people are learning every day that at every point where those in power through government can touch your life you are in danger. It could be just that they are looking for more ways to suck out more money, perhaps fining you for something like your storage unit, something that has never before been worth noticing. Or it may be the profit they can suck out of your children once they are pulled into the Social Services System. These forms of conversion take place in tens of thousands of cases every single day...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/americas_courts_threatens_us_ways_you_never_imagined.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pillsbury-Foster

Salon
by Amanda Terkel and Matt Corley

05/20/08

It has now been more than three months since Karl Rove first appeared on television as a Fox News political analyst on Feb 5. In no fewer than 57 appearances, he has increasingly been welcomed into the Fox News fraternity, even joking that the ‘”Hannity & Colmes’ show should be renamed the ‘Colmes & Rove’ show. After departing from a Bush administration in political tatters last August, he has reemerged to hold forth at length on the 2008 presidential race. And he may have plenty of seasoned political wisdom to offer Fox’s audience. Rove, however, is playing a strategic role that he and the network refuse to reveal to viewers. Fox News hosts routinely introduce Rove as a ‘former senior advisor to President Bush,’ ‘the architect,’ a ‘political wizard’ and a ‘famed political consultant.’ But never has he been introduced as he should be — as an informal advisor and maxed-out donor to John McCain’s presidential campaign...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/20/rove_fox/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amanda+Terkel

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/325.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

Recently released government research on the health of the American people brought the nation some troubling information -- our life expectancy, which many proudly assumed was steadily climbing, is actually declining in many parts of the country.

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/286819


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+care

The nation will return to paper voting.
http://tinyurl.com/5c2kmb


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=electronic+voting
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections

Among the Koreans who witnessed, took part in or lost family members to the mass killings, the events were hardly hidden, but they became a "public secret," barely whispered about through four decades...

http://tinyurl.com/6b2vuo



Thousands killed by US's Korean ally
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=174859


From Information Clearing House

Mohammad El-Baradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said here Monday the UN nuclear watchdog has no evidence proving that Iran was building a nuclear bomb, but affirmed that the Iranian nuclear file was part of security of region.

http://tinyurl.com/6zww6a



US Congressional leaders say they don't rule out military option against Iran

Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives said in Israel on Monday that they do not rule out military action against Iran to stop it from acquiring nuclear bombs.

http://tinyurl.com/5ot8cq


From Information Clearing House

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Spinning the IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program

US corporate media put slant on report despite IAEA finding no proof of continued nuclear arms program.

http://tinyurl.com/3rcu2e



http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=El-Baradei
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IAEA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporate+media

By George Monbiot
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19953.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Monbiot

Pepsi, Apple, Krispy Kreme and other consumer firms profit from Iraq too.

By Nick Turse

Napoleon supposedly said, "An army marches on its stomach." Over the years of occupation to come, and for the next invasion too, remember that, whatever land it occupies, the Pentagon marches on a stomach filled with Cap'n Crunch, Rice-A-Roni and Diet Pepsi Vanilla -- and, ever increasingly, you're marching with it too.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19956.htm



For Profit

By Malcolm Martin

The US government has been hollowed out during the rise to absolute power of the corporations. Elections have become an elaborate "reality show" that plays out on corporate television for viewers entertainment.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19951.htm



US-Led Capitalist System Headed for Collapse?

Syed Rashid Husain

As much as 60 percent of today's crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and hedge funds. It has nothing to do with the convenient myths of Peak Oil. It has to do with control of oil and its price.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19957.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=consumer+firms
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=peak+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=collapse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nick+Turse
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Malcolm+Martin

BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD

Let's remember that it isn't about who occupies the chair in the Oval Office, but those who are around that person. And that doesn't change much whether the occupant is a Democrat or a Republican. The military-industrial complex, the big bankers and the transnationals are the ones that really govern in the United States. And they are not leaving power in November.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19954.htm



German expert warns against potential US operations in Venezuela

He thinks it is a "live-or-die" situation for the US government. Therefore, they would be ready to implement a military plan, which could include an invasion or an attack from Colombia. "For that reason, they brought the Fourth Fleet back, wiped out the Colombian guerrillas and will make Colombia play the same role that Honduras played against Nicaragua" in 1979.

http://tinyurl.com/53tpfn


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military-industrial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=transnationals
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Venezuela
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Colombia

Video

Balfour to Blair, investigates the history of British policy in the Middle East from the beginning of the 20th century to today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19948.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blair
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Middle+East

By Peter Chamberlin

The failure of the Bush/Bandar/Olmert axis to ignite a prolonged shooting war between the Lebanese resistance forces and their hired guns Hariri and Jumblatt is a clear declaration to the world that the glorious neocon policies of Bush have been proven complete failures on the battlefield. Yet, he and Cheney keep pushing for new openings to ignite a new conflagration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19955.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lebanon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=conflagration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Chamberlin

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

For centuries the colonizers exploited and dominated the third world. Today, one of the more subtle tools of imperialism is the use of value-laden language that seeks to define the Arab and Muslim world. With labels such as 'terrorists' and 'Islamofascism', they wish to establish an 'Orientalist' perspective of otherness denoting barbarism...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19950.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Islamofascism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sepahpour-Ulrich

By Cindy Sheehan

Instead of working overtime to see which party can exploit US troops better and harder than the other, (their pretend opposition and political playacting is exactly like watching pretend wrestling on TV where two "foes" spit epithets at each other and then fake-wrestle for a faker prize) Pelosi, et al, should be burning the midnight oil to craft a humane solution to what has become the Democrats' as much as the Republicans' problem.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19947.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Writing for The Politico, Jonathan Martin says: "In a delicious piece of irony, many dispirited Republicans, devastated by Tuesday's special election loss in Mississippi, now believe their savior to be John McCain - a not-so-constant conservative many of them also have long intensely disliked."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051908T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

The Anniston Star's Markeshia Ricks reports: "Almost two months after being released from a federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, former Governor Don Siegelman looks noticeably healthier.... He's got color in his cheeks, a little more weight on his body and a fierce determination to not only clear his name but to do his part to expose a scandal in the US Department of Justice that he says is bigger than Watergate."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051908R.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Don+Siegelman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DOJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watergate

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/19/kristol/index.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kristol
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul459.html

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What's next for the economy?

Tough times in world's seventh largest ecomomy: consumer spending down, unemployment up, municipalities going bust.

http://tinyurl.com/62bcer


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemployment
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/enemy-always-thestate.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/rockwell

After a exhaustive search, there is some substantive evidence of a long history of nuclear powered missiles being held in the US Military, and being actively developed and researched by NASA and various other governmental agencies - such as the Atomic Energy Commision and others.

Check out the research for yourself.

http://main.anomalicresearch.com/pdf/NPI.pdf

backup link

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This document is public domain please copy and share freely.


Informant: zebra77a

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hurowitz19-2008may19,0,6565330.story


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=palm+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Hurowitz

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/7474/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yc1KTBxy8Q


Informant: shane_digital

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/opinion/19krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman

Let's try to tell the Australian government that killing Kangaroos is not acceptable. These animals have been in Australia before man came, and now they need our help. Please sign this petition. It may not stop the killing, but it will show the government that they are being watched by all world citizens.

http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/17501.html

Also see these sites for more information:
http://www.kangaroolives.com
http://www.canberraroos.com/


Earle